FAQ for USC Financial Aid

Sweetbeet
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:37:28 +0000

I am really sorry if this has been covered in the past 90 pages of posts, but I can’t seem to find anything with the new “search” feature (since I can’t seem to search only this thread…)

Anyway, here’s what I did. Submitted FAFSA and Profile with “estimates” (wanted to be sure to get them in on time), several weeks ago.

Finally completed (yea!) my taxes last night. Filed electronically (Fed and State). Numbers are actually a little lower (income, taxes, etc.) than I’d predicted. Just a little. But apparently just enough to now qualify us for a small Pell grant.

Son also filed his taxes, this morning. His income was a little higher than predicted.

Corrected FAFSA - changed to “already filed” for son and parents, corrected numbers. Can’t use “Data Retrieval” yet, since info not processed.

SO, what do I do about the Profile? Should I do a corrected profile (if so, how do I do that?) or just wait for USC to request my tax returns? Send them now? ???

Our only Profile schools are USC and one other (University of Denver). I don’t even know if Denver uses IDOC or what they want. I know I can’t just correct the Profile online, but how do I do this?